Comments on: Avoiding Email Bankruptcy

By: Marathe

Marathe — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:31:51 +0000

“Email bankruptcy” – I have been there many times, but never knew there was a term for it! Thanks!

By: Deep Jive Interests » The One Thing Gmail Really Needs -- And Has Never Been Done

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:30:20 +0000

[...] week, bordering on the brink of email bankruptcy, I would have done terrible things all for being able to sort by author. Doesn’t anyone else [...]

By: Dani in NC

Dani in NC — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:35:07 +0000

“But one of the biggest things I got out of it was, no matter how you actually organize things, how important it is to *have* a system and how you have to be ruthless about being regular when you commit to it.”

That is the crux of the problem. The fun part for me is the organizing. I started the SHE system years ago, and I go back to it occasionally. Arranging the chore cards in their file box makes me feel as though I am accomplishing something. Actually DOING those chores as they pop up on the calendar only lasts for about a month.

By: CreditPir

CreditPir — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:13:05 +0000

Email bankruptcy is awful for me. It means that everybody forgets about you. Sad!

By: Grant Barrett

Grant Barrett — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:21:26 +0000

If by “coined” you mean, “wrote or said for the first time,” then Lessig didn’t coin “email bankruptcy.” See here.

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:58:27 +0000

Funny you mention that, Eric.

I find with RSS feeds that I tend to just scan the lof of them by headline. For news sites it does tend to work, although for certain bloggers I do need to have a look at the excerpt to get a flavour of the post.

Cheers
t @ dji

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:34:06 +0000

I just wrote about declaring RSS bankruptcy of sorts, which sort of tracks with trying to find sanity and some sort of control over the massive influx of information many of us have to deal with today.

Gmail’s folders have been a huge help for me. It allows me to pack rat e-mail that *might* be useful at some point for relatively easy retrieval later. I use my Inbox as the place for stuff I need to do something with. It sits there and stares at me and stares at me until I’m snapped out of my ever present provcrastinative state!

It’s a drag and depressing though when I simply can’t hack down the Inbox to a reasonable state. The thought of e-mail bankruptcy will certainly be tempting!